This is how we charge our cars: The authority found out the amount of electricity used

Finns last year charged about six and a half euros per time for public charging of an electric car.

On the other hand, an average of 25 minutes was spent at public fast chargers.

The numbers come from the first time that the Finnish Transport and Communications Agency Traficom did from the market review. It looks at the amount and price of charging electricity and refueling gas and ethanol cars.

On the electrical side the review covers 91 percent of charging stations in Finland, the agency informs. It collected data from 17 charging operators.

In the review year 2024, Finns visited Latur diligently; more than seven million download events were recorded.

At the end of that year, there were almost 300,000 plug-in cars in Finland, when all vehicle classes and plug-in hybrids are included.

Charging companies earned 52 million euros from replenishing their batteries.

The greater part paid for their download with a mobile phone application or with a download identifier, “tag” connected to it.

Only two percent of motorists do business with a physical payment terminal. A small proportion can be explained by that The EU began to demand mandatory endings only in the middle of the review year.

The Union regulation obliges to build card payment terminals next to new fast chargers. In other words, during the data collection year, many people have transacted at chargers where it was not yet possible to pay by card.

Fully electric cars and the batteries of plug-in hybrids are usually topped up at night at home, although the car conversation highlights the varying abilities of cars to draw electricity from roadside fast chargers.

This is confirmed by the data, as 71 percent of traffic electricity is consumed in home charging.

In total, the electricity consumption of road transport was 777 gigawatt hours last year.